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Anna Banerji
Associate Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 - Heart inflammation in youth
- COVID-19 - Helped with SARS as an infection disease specialist
- COVID-19 - Infection & vaccination rates in children
- Health of Syrian refugees
- Health policy
- Indigenous health
- International health
- Inuit health
- Mitigating health risks after natural disasters
- Potential for viral infections & water-borne diseases
- Refugee health
- Tropical medicine / infectious disease
- Why is there a spike in refugees needing assistance
Office: 416-978-8319
Email: anna.banerji@utoronto.ca
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Elizabeth Dhuey
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Economics of K-12 education
- Kindergarten
- Middle/Junior High School
- Principals
- Redshirting
- Special Education Finance
Office: 416-208-2687
Email: elizabeth.dhuey@utoronto.ca
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Lauren Bialystok
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Ethical controversies in education
- Gender and sexual diversity
- Liberalism and democracy in education
Office: 416-978-0412
Mobile: 416-722-2590
Languages (in addition to English): French
Email: lauren.bialystok@utoronto.ca
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Steve Joordens
Professor of Psychology at U of T Scarborough

- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Anxiety; Social pressure; Managing boundaries
- Attention
- Connecting psychology to world events
- Consciousness
- Family and interpersonal relationships
- How epidemics affect those with anxiety
- How physical distancing will forever change the ways we interact
- Memory
- Mental well-being
- Trauma
Office: (416) 287-7469
Email: steve.joordens@utoronto.ca
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Todd Cunningham
Chair of the School and Clinical Child Psychology Program
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Assistive technology
- Learning disabilities
- Literacy development
- Mental health of youth and adolescents
- Readjusting to in-person environment
- Remote-learning option
- School psychology
- Students’ mental health
- Support for students with disabilities
Office: N/A
Mobile: (416)-970-3433
Website
Email: todd.cunningham@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
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